Stone Age Hunter-Gatherers: Diary Writing

In this lesson, you will find:

• a PowerPoint detailing the progress of hunting across the Stone Age during the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods. The final slides also give your children an opportunity to brainstorm ideas for their own diary entries.

• Three differentiated tasks including prompt sheets for your more able learners and a structured diary entry for children working towards age-related expectations in writing. This sheet is also SEN friendly.

• Editable versions of the aforementioned

• A lesson plan that can be easily adapted into your preferred format

WELCOME TO THE LIFE OF A HUNTER-GATHERER
Throw your children into the shoes of a Stone Age hunter and open their eyes to the way people in Britain lived hundreds of thousands of years ago. In this lesson, they’ll learn about the development of hunting weapons and strategies and how farming came to be.

They’ll be both guided and challenged to think about the threats and obstacles that came alongside hunting, and how it made the people of the time feel. When they’re ready, give them the task of applying their knowledge to a short diary entry to showcase what they’ve learnt!